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Automatically generating multi-image posts on online social networks

  • US 10,642,914 B2
  • Filed: 07/26/2017
  • Issued: 05/05/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising, by one or more computing devices of an online social network:

  • accessing, by a crawling module, a first structured document from an external server, the first structured document being associated with a first post on the online social network by a third-party content provider, and the first structured document comprising a plurality of image objects and information associated with each of the plurality of image objects;

    extracting, from the first structured document, a sub-set of image objects from the plurality of image objects and the respective information associated with each of the image objects in the sub-set;

    analyzing, by an image-categorization module, the extracted image objects and information to identify one or more categories of image objects within the sub-set of image objects, each category of image objects being identified based on one or more features of the image objects;

    selecting, from among the one or more categories, a first category of image objects comprising a plurality of image objects within the sub-set of image objects, wherein the first category of image objects has a highest number of image objects compared to a number of image objects in each other category of the one or more categories of image objects; and

    generating, by a post-composer module, a second post comprising a link to the first structured document and a multi-image display, wherein the multi-image display comprises at least two or more of the image objects from the first category of image objects.

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